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child seat

child seat noun: synonym of child safety seat (“a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children”).

Noun

child seat (plural child seats)

  1. Synonym of child safety seat (“a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children”).
    • Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back... We estimate that these laws prevented only 57...2020 July 31, Jordan Nickerson et al., “Car Seats as Contraception”, in Journal of Law and Economics, Abstract
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see child, seat (a seat, like a chair, designed for a child).

Synonyms of child seat

Forms of child seat

pluralchild seats

Questions about child seat

What does child seat mean?
Child seat means synonym of child safety seat (“a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children”).
What part of speech is child seat?
Child seat is a noun.
What is the plural of child seat?
The plural of child seat is child seats.

Words near child seat in the dictionary

  1. child prostitution
  2. child restraint
  3. child restraints
  4. child safety seat
  5. child safety seats
  6. child seat
  7. child seats
  8. child sex abuse
  9. child sex crime
  10. child sex crimes
  11. child sex tourism

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